Raggle

It sounds like a piece of harmless fun, but "raggling" is, probably, the most invasive and dusty work you can let yourself in for. It involves cutting out channels in the existing walls - all of which are solid brick - to allow new electrical wires to be fed to each individual switch, socket and light-point. With hundreds of metres to be hooked-up, it's easy to see how the process creates a huge amount of dust and rubble. And that's before we start replumbing the whole house, with floorboards being cut and lifted to gain access to radiators, drains and water pipes...